Tag: Sinaia

Castles in the Transylvania region of Romania are already high on the imagination quotient, especially in places where everyone has read Bram Stoker’s Dracula, or seen one of the dozens of movies made about the sinister count. In other places, Transylvania is simply a historical region in central Romania. The Romanians called it Ardeal. Bordered on three sides by mountains, it’s a beautiful place.
Here in Transylvania are two famous castles that fire the imagination, Bran Castle in Brasov, and Peles Castle in Sinaia (which is technically 31 miles from Transylvania, but close enough). Read More

Traveler Reviews

Each week, the Travel team at the Columbus Dispatch focuses on a new and interesting travel program to spotlight in the newspaper’s Sunday travel column. This week, they picked MIR’s epic 24-day Chinese Turkestan & Central Asia small group tour, which retraces the path of Silk Road merchants and explorers through modern-day Central Asia and China.Stops include the oasis city of Yarkand and an overnight near Tash Rabat, a 15th-century stone caravanserai in Kyrgyzstan. Guests will also skirt the Taklamakan Desert on camels, learn to set up a yurt and visit blue-tiled mosques and madrasahs in Uzbekistan.The tour was also featured in the Dispatch’s monthly business magazine, Columbus CEO.Read the full article online at the Columbus Dispatch and Columbus CEO.